2004 Design Programming Systems 
Adrian Cockcroft
JUNE 21, 2022
Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.
Sutter's Mill
JANUARY 11, 2021
An assertion documents the expected state of specific program variables at the point where the assertion is written, in a testable way so that we can find program bugs — logic errors that have led to corrupted program state. Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.
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Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. The overhead to walk DWARF is also too high, as it was designed for non-realtime use.
Randon ASCII
OCTOBER 4, 2020
The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. First, a bit of operating-system design context. Timer interrupts and their raison d’être.
Smashing Magazine
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
” Quality assurance (QA) is defined as: “A program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met.” — “ Quality assurance ,” Merriam-Webster. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?.
Smashing Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2021
During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. More after jump!
O'Reilly
OCTOBER 11, 2022
meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. They’re inefficient, poorly designed, and perhaps even wholly inappropriate for the task.
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